Valas were seeresses in old Norse culture. They were highly regarded women who traveled the land and provided insight.
When I was a child, I was severely bullied. “Bullied” doesn’t even feel like the right word for it — looking at it from the distance of years, experience and education (and a whole lot of therapy), it seems to me that words like ‘plagued’, ‘hounded’, ‘oppressed’, and…
San Diego is the eighth largest city in the United States, containing .43% of the total population of the…
When I lived in Williamsburg, Virginia, I was a tour guide in the Colonial area. As “noninterprative staff” (we didn’t play colonial dress-up) had…
I’m hearing a lot of talk about how the left has lessons to learn — and we undoubtedly do. We have downplayed and ignored the plight of rural areas and the working class for too long…
